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Opening Story for an Eye-Opening Book: The Finnish writer Kauko Loukas has written a book about a disaster scenario of gigantic proportions. The area and environment are chilling exotic as the attention is directed to the scenes of Greenland with its vast ice fields. Their role is important in an equally large scale thrilling story about the forces of nature in work with their immense erupting potential. One day, the huge glacier starts to discharge violently into the Arctic sea. Is it possible that something ominous could happen in Greenland causing the floodgates to break, so to speak?...

Sponsored by the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute of ASCE; Port and Airport Research Institute of Japan.On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake rumbled off the east coast of Japan, followed by a tsunami that generated waves more than 18 meters high. The earthquake and tsunami caused devastation throughout the Tohoku and Sendai regions of Japan, killing nearly 16,000 people and causing damage estimated at more than US$126 billion.For seven days in May 2011, an ASCE/COPRI Coastal Structures Team investigated the earthquake and tsunami effects specific to engineered coastal...